© 2007 SWPS THE COMPARISON OF J2EE AND.NET FOR ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Abstra t. e-Business and Enterprise Information Systems have held the spotlight sin e Internet and World-Wide-Web ame out to the world. The e-Business appli ations have been evolved from lega y lient-server ar hite ture into n-tier ar hite ture, lately even into Enterprise Information Systems. There are two famous approa hes to build the e-Business appli ations, whi h are J2EE and.NET. In this paper, e-Business and n-tier ar hite ture are illustrated. Besides, n-tier ar hite ture for Enterprise Information Systems is introdu ed, whi h provide the a ess to the disparate data sour es. In addition, J2EE and.NET are ompared for e-Business appli ations based on many riteria in luding the methodologies to implement Enterprise Information Systems. Key words. Integrated Information Systems, Enterprise Information Systems, e-Business, J2EE,.NET, n-Tier ar hite ture 1. Introdu tion. e-Business systems have been popular in the world sin e Internet and World-Wide-Web ame out. IBM denes e-Business as the leveraging of network apabilities and te hnologies in order to a hieve and maintain the huge advantages for ustomers, suppliers, partners, and employees [9℄. e-Business a tivities an be lassied into three ategories based on end-users of transa tions, normally on the Internet: Intra-business, Business-to- onsumer, and Business-to-business. Intra-business a tivity is to share ompany information and omputing resour es among employees on the intranet su h as knowledge management. Business-to- onsumer, the most ommon a tivity, is to provide servi es to onsumers who is out of organizations su h as ustomer resour e management, e-Commer e, and web au tions et. Business-to-business a tivity is to improve inter